Baltimore City

While the top brass of the Baltimore Police department gathered in City Hall on Wednesday for the confirmation hearing of acting commissioner Darryl De Sousa, detectives were busy responding to shootings around West Baltimore. Police said three men were killed and a teenager was wounded in four...

Crime Beat

Maryland residents who are deaf or have speech disabilities — or anyone with a reason to ask for help silently — could soon use their cellphones to send and receive 911 requests by text. The state Board of Public Works voted Wednesday to approve a $2.4 million contract that will allow emergency...

An off-duty Prince George’s County police officer was shot and killed Wednesday morning while helping a woman next door in an incident of domestic violence, the department’s police chief said. Cpl. Mujahid Ramzziddin, a 14-year veteran of the department, was fatally shot by a man with a shotgun...

Police in Maryland found an AR-15 assault-style rifle and other items in the home of an 18-year-old honor roll student who brought a loaded handgun to his Montgomery County high school. Montgomery Assistant State's Attorney Frank Lazzaro said officers also discovered Alwin Chen, a Clarksburg High...

North Baltimore

Baltimore’s first medical marijuana dispensaries opened this week among the bars and restaurants of Federal Hill and the eclectic shops of Hampden, and some people who live and work in those neighborhoods said they didn’t much care. “I just don’t want to see fast food or a chain store move in,”...

Police are investigating a string of robberies near the Charles Village and Oakenshawe neighborhoods near the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, the university security office said Sunday. Since July 28, seven armed robberies have been reported in the area north of University Parkway. In the two most...

South Baltimore

British comedian John Oliver rang in the new year with a Baltimore dining tour — chowing down at Hersh’s just after midnight and enjoying a New Year’s Day brunch at Alexander’s Tavern. Hersh’s owner and chef Josh Hershkovitz said his longtime friend who works with major comedy tours brought Oliver...

Stroll with me down a wide and remarkably spotless alley on the south side of the city, a place where the frothy millennial wave washes against stubborn old Baltimore. There we encounter personalities and events unlikely to occur in the same combination anywhere else: a retired longshoreman named...

East Baltimore

A damaged monument to Christopher Columbus — believed to be the oldest in America — will be repaired and rededicated, a key Baltimore official said Monday. Eric Holcomb, the city’s director of the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation, said it’s possible the monument will remain...

Del. Mary Washington will challenge Baltimore Sen. Joan Carter Conway for the Democratic nomination next year, putting yet another senior city lawmaker’s seat in play. Washington, 55, said Thursday she filed this week to run in the June 26, 2018, primary for the 43rd District Senate seat. The two-term...

West Baltimore

New walls and a roof are part of the transformation of a pair of West Baltimore rowhouses into the first permanent base for a neighborhood group determined to make their community a better place. “We needed a place where we could attract young people,” said Edna Manns-Lake, president of Fayette...

Baltimore City Police are investigating after a man walked into an area hospital after being shot in West Baltimore Sunday morning. Police said the man told officers he was shot in the upper body in the 2700 block of Edmondson Avenue by an unknown suspect. No other details were immediately available....

Baltimore news

Environmental groups plan to rally in front of Baltimore City Hall on Wednesday as the City Council takes up a bill that would ban the construction of crude oil terminals as part of an ongoing effort to limit the number of oil trains passing through the city. The groups say the trains are dangerous...

Two young men were convicted Tuesday of sex offenses after prosecutors say they carjacked two women leaving the Alewife bar in downtown Baltimore and forced them at gunpoint to perform oral sex. Quamontae Johnson and Levi Bonds were 17 and 18 years old, respectively, that summer night in 2016....

Would Baltimore be better off if we called off the war on drugs? Yes. There would almost certainly be less violence here. The downside: Barring a sudden and significant change in the city’s economic base that could lead to more jobs for men who have been involved in the illegal narcotics trade,...

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh brushed off a USA Today report calling Baltimore the deadliest big city in the country, saying it was based on numbers from last year and crime is down across the board so far in 2018. Pugh addressed the report at a preview event for the Light City festival. “Because...

A former Highlandtown businessman just out of federal prison was identified as the victim fatally shot by masked men in a neighborhood barbershop Monday evening. Andreas Tamaris, 47, who police said had a last known address in Baltimore County, was in the His & Her Barbershop in the 3200 block...